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Autonomy and automatons: managed care in the USA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Kwame McKenzie
Kwame McKenzie*
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Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School Boston, MA 02115, [email protected]
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Managed care is a phrase on the lips of every US psychiatrist. Some believe that this revolution in health care has brought US doctors kicking and screaming into the age of ‘cost-effective’, ‘evidence-based medicine’ (Mechanic, 1997). But most psychiatrists I interviewed from Boston, San Francisco and New York, thought it had transformed them from autonomous professionals to automatons.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 22 , Issue 12 , December 1998 , pp. 765 - 768
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Copyright © 1998 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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